Lisbeth Zwerger
Lisbeth Zwerger (born May 26, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian children's book illustrator .
Lisbeth Zwerger is the daughter of the artist and cartographer of the Athos map, Reinhold Zwerger . From 1971 to 1974 she studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since the publication of her first illustrated book in 1977, she has been working as a freelance picture book illustrator in Vienna, with a particular passion for fairy tales .
Awards
- BIB gold plaque (twice)
- 1985: Golden Apple BIB
- several New York Times awards
- four times Bologna Ragazzi Award
- 1990: Hans Christian Andersen Award
- 1994: Pied Piper Prize for Literature for The Dwarf Nose and Children's Poems and Gallows Songs
- 1998: Austrian Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature
- 2002: Illustration prize for books for children and young people for The Bible
- 2003: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
- 2015: Wildweibchenpreis of the community of Reichelsheim in the Odenwald
Works
- The strange child of ETA Hoffmann , Ed. Neugebauer im Schrodel Verl. 1977
- The fairy tale of rose petals by Clemens Brentano , Ed. Neugebauer im Schrodel Verl. 1978
- Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi , Ueberreuter 1978
- Fairy tale of romanticism by Ingrid Weixelbaumer (ed.), Betz 1978
- Hansel and Gretel from Brothers Grimm , Ed. Neugebauer im Schrodel Verl. 1979
- Nutcracker and Mouse King by ETA Hoffmann , Ed. Neugebauer im Schrodel Verl. 1979
- Däumelieschen by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 1980
- The Seven Ravens by Brothers Grimm , Neugebauer 1981
- The swineherd by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 1982
- The Gift of the Wise Men from O. Henry Neugebauer 1982
- Little Red Riding Hood by Brothers Grimm , Neugebauer 1983
- The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 1984
- The selfish giant by Oscar Wilde , Neugebauer 1984
- The Savior of the Country by Edith Nesbit , Neugebauer 1985
- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde , Neugebauer 1986
- Nutcracker and Mouse King by ETA Hoffmann , Neugebauer 1987
- A Christmas fairy tale by Charles Dickens , Neugebauer 1988
- 12 fables by Aesop , Neugebauer 1989
- Till Eulenspiegel by Heinz Janisch , Neugebauer 1990
- Dance songs by Dorothee Kreusch-Jacob, Neugebauer 1990
- Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 1991
- The sandman is coming: 7 bedtime stories by Hans Christian Andersen , 1992
- Children's poems and gallows songs by Christian Morgenstern , Neugebauer 1992
- The dwarf nose by Wilhelm Hauff , Neugebauer 1993
- The Art of Lisbeth Zwerger (catalog of works) 1993
- The little Häwelmann by Theodor Storm , Neugebauer 1995
- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum , Neugebauer 1996
- Noah's Ark by Heinz Janisch , Neugebauer 1997
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , Neugebauer 1999
- The Bible , Neugebauer 2000
- How the camel got its hump by Rudyard Kipling , Neugebauer 2001
- Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Neugebauer 2002
- Nutcracker from ETA Hoffmann , Neugebauer 2003
- The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen , Neugebauer 2004
- The night before Christmas by Clement C. Moore , Neugebauer 2005
- The Bremen Town Musicians , Brothers Grimm , Neugebauer 2006
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , No & But 2007
- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum , NordSüd Verl. 2009
- The Pied Piper of Hameln , Brothers Grimm , 2009
- The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde , Neugebauer Ed. 2010
- The dream beech and other reveries by French chimneys Richard Volkmann-Leander , 2010
- The World of Imagination (catalog for the traveling exhibition) by Renate Raecke and Elisabeth Hohmeister (eds.), With an essay by Willy Puchner , 2010.
- Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner , edited by Jürg Amann . NordSüd Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-314-10181-6 .
- Miracles. World literature for children . NordSüd Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-314-10226-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Lisbeth Zwerger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhold Zwerger's website; accessed on May 30, 2015.
- ^ The magic of repeated gazes in FAZ of June 30, 2014, page 10
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dwarf, Lisbeth |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian children's book illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |